A lot of people on the forum have been asking for Terry Goodkind's books to be available as eBooks. Wizard's First Rule is now available at BooksOnBoard (in Mobipocket only at the moment) for only $6.88; it's also available at Amazon for $7.18.

This is only the first book in his epic series, but I for one hope the rest do come out and soon.

Ah, Objectivist fantasy e-books... I hope Zindell's Requiem for Homo Sapiens gets digitized so they can have a philo-SF e-book smack-down.

Anyone else notice the weirdness that this e-book appears to be published by Rosetta Books -- although not listed on their Web site? And additional weirdness that Goodkind's p-book publisher is apparently Tor?

Don't you think that it would be a good idea to wait and hear from BoB's support what the reason is that the book can't currently be bought before leaping to conclusions about sisister machinations by Amazon? It could well be no more than an error in BoB's database for the book.

Don't you think that it would be a good idea to wait and hear from BoB's support what the reason is that the book can't currently be bought before leaping to conclusions about sisister machinations by Amazon? It could well be no more than an error in BoB's database for the book.

The eBook is no longer on BoB's site any longer. I did email support and I'll see what they have to say, but my guess is that it was a mistake and should not have been there.

Goodkind always deeply believed that the power of novels is connected in part to the physical experience of reading a printed book, and so for years he refused to permit electronic editions of his work. But a hands-on demonstration of the Kindle turned him into a believer that here at last was a technology which provided that powerful reading experience. So, for the first time ever, the opening book in Goodkind's Sword of Truth saga, Wizard's First Rule, is now available exclusively for Amazon Kindle from Rosetta Books Publishers.